[Music] I'm not speaking in Korean. I would like to welcome to the stage Namu. Now, for those of you that don't know, Namu means tree in Korean.And in a previous life, I think I was a tree. Sturdy, huggable, a few knobbybly bits, and definitely a bit nutty at times. And like tree, like me, trees love to talk.They have this amazing underground network, and it's often referred to as the woodwide web. How cool is that. And what happens is this is full of fungi.And they all talk to each other. They're continual ...

Dora Puhakka was a Speaker at TEDxEspoo Youth 2025! What does it truly mean to connect with another human being? In this TEDx Talk, Dora Puhakka invites us to reflect on one of the most universal human needs: to be seen, to be heard, and to feel that we belong. From the beginning of the Talk we are reminded that human connection is not a luxury - it is a necessity. Yet despite living in an increasingly interconnected world, many of us feel isolated, divided, and misunderstood. This Talk explores how concept ...

[Music] [Applause] As a kid, do you remember the absolute adrenaline rush of hearing the ice cream truck. I lived at the top of my neighborhood. So, I took it as my civic duty to hop on my bike and alert the rest of the kids.Looking back on this experience, did I care how I looked. Frantically, knocking on people's doors during dinner time, drenched in sweat. No.Did I care how I sounded. Shrieking. The ice cream truck is coming.Smash your piggy banks. Grab your flavors. No.Why didn't I care. Because I knew ...

[Music] It's 1:00 a. m. in New York City.You've been driving for over 12 hours and your GPS, well, it glitches and it decides it's time for you to get off the highway. only to find yourself sitting at a random street corner. When this happened to me three years ago, I was directed to turn left down a dark alleyway.Panic set in. Tears welling in utter exhaustion. And you all know that pit that we all get in our stomachs.Yeah, that one. screaming, "Don't do it." While the technology insisted, "Turn left." Who ...

[Applause] For centuries, humans have been obsessed with measuring the intangible time. And in every culture, time is viewed differently. Whether in the far east where time is viewed cyclally or in the western world where we tend to see things more on a linear scale, time seems infinite when we're young but speeds up as we get older.Yet time is more than just a direction or a measurement. It's the true universal currency. It's deeply personal, fleeting when we're happy and endless when we're not.And to this ...